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Racial Disparities Persist Even as School Suspensions Decrease, Federal Data Shows By Sarah Barr | June 7, 2016 WASHINGTON — Out-of-school suspensions dropped 20 percent nationally in recent years, but students of color and students with disabilities are still more …

What made America great in the first place? The very unorganized and rudimentary public education system that was dedicated exclusively to the three R’s helped significantly. However, brilliant scientist and successful businessman, Benjamin Franklin and internationally admired analytical genius, Abraham …

I teach. I teach in the way I learn, through humor and context. I put together history with current events and make them draw a direct line of comparison. I put forward new, innovated science and technology releases, and we …

Amidst mounting criticism of its disciplinary practices in recent years, Los Angeles Unified School District began shifting away from citations and suspensions and toward practices that emphasize keeping students in the classroom in 2012. Reaction to Los Angeles Unified School …

Mike Lamb, TurnAround for Children ________________________ There is a growing national consensus, reflected in the positions and priorities of lawmakers at all levels of government, that the U.S. criminal justice system must be reformed with the goal of ending mass …

It may be one of the least controversial statements in American education today: “Parent involvement can make a difference in a child’s education.” However, the question and conflict arises on how to define that involvement. Do all the PTA meetings, …

In the Fall of 2013, the McSilver Institute partnered with the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (CRISP) and Social Justice Solutions to co-sponsor a symposium in Washington, DC, on the impact of federal policies and programs on children’s mental health services. This is …

I am a school psychologist, and fourteen years of my work have been at a Catholic coeducational secondary college (Years 7 to 10) in a disadvantaged area in the western suburbs of Melbourne. This school was established on social …

El Dorado Elementary School Principal Silvia Cordero announces one of the winners of the weekly student-of-the-week award. ____________________________ For one young student – let’s call him Martin — the 2012-2013 school year at El Dorado Elementary in the Visitacion Valley …

Federal policies frequently have profound effects on how social workers are able to provide services to children and families yet many practitioners and consumers are often unaware of the policies that are impacting them. Policies come in the form of …